Does a stateless session bean have access to the User Principal?

[Yuriy Zilbergleyt]

Hello,

Can a method of a stateless session bean know which user calls it? If not, how about a stateful session bean? What I'm looking for is the username (Principal) specified during the JNDI lookup of the context used to retrieve the home interface.

Thank you,
Yuriy

[Dave Salter]

Yes, you can do this from a Statefull and a Stateless session bean.

Have a look at SessionContext.getCallerPrincipal()

[Yuriy Zilbergleyt]

Thanks Dave!

So if 10 different users use the same bean's remote interface to concurrently call business methods, sessionContext.getCallerPrincipal() will return the correct value inside each user's call?

Thank you,
Yuriy

[Dave Salter]

Thats right. Each user will get an instance of the stateless session bean from a pool and the method will return the correct principal for each one.
[ September 16, 2005: Message edited by: Dave Salter ]